, Antique Print-PEDDLER -TITLE PAGE-Watteau-1760, Pictura Antique Prints
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Antique Print-PEDDLER -TITLE PAGE-Watteau-1760

Print

€80.00

Livre D eteude de Watteau sold by Claude du Bosc in Charles Street, Covent Garden London. – This print shows the frontispiece of the book Livre d’eteude de Watteau. A man with a shabby coat and hat, probably a peddler, shows the title page of the book on the street in a cupboard.

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SKU: RB-848 Category:

Description

‘Livre D eteude de Watteau sold by Claude du Bosc in Charles Street, Covent Garden London. ‘

Etching on hand laid (verge) paper. Watermark: Countermark VI.
Sheet size: 21,5 x 28 cm. (8,5 x 11 inch). Image size: 21 x 27,5 cm. (8,3 x 10,8 inch).

This attractive print was sold by Claude du Bosc in Charles Street, Covent Garden London in 1760.

Made by ‘Antoine Watteau ‘ after own design. Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)was a French artist who during his short career invented the genre of the ‘fete galante’, and whose work was widely collected in England in the generation after his death.

Condition: Good, given age. Diagonal folds. Hole of burning and two small wormholes. Lower left and right corner creases. Brown spots and remains of glue on reverse. Trimmed to image; into image at bottom. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: PEDDLER -TITLEPAGE-SHABBY CLOTHES

RBOS-A6-20

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Dimensions 28 × 21 × 1 cm

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